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With revenues plummeting and credit cut off, the Argentine provinces had to resort to printing scrip to pay salaries and pensions.
At the most basic level, there were not enough gold reserves around to back the monetary needs of a growing world economy, especially since the prices of goods had risen sharply as a result of wartime money printing.
But with the US printing debt and money like it is going out of style, it would appear the euro is set to appreciate against the dollar two or three years down the road, if the euro is still around, that is.
Sometime over the next generation, the price levels of the US, Japan, and Germany might rise substantially after some government short-sightedly attempts to finance some of its social-welfare spending by printing money.
But what about the vast quantitative easing (printing of money) that has been occurring?
What matters is not printing money, but spending it.
But policymakers have one more option: a shift to “purer” fiscal policy, in which they directly finance government spending by printing money – a so-called “helicopter drop.”
For example, the time-honored solution of printing money and escaping debt via inflation is unavailable to the PIIGS, because they are trapped in the eurozone straitjacket.
The only institution that can crank up the printing press – the European Central Bank – will never resort to monetization of fiscal deficits.
Manufacturers can augment or replace their assembly lines with technologies such as the Internet of Things and 3D printing.
It is the world’s largest e-commerce market, accounting for more than 40% of global transactions, and ranks among the top three countries for venture capital investment in autonomous vehicles, 3D printing, robotics, drones, and artificial intelligence (AI).
The euro itself is at risk, because the countries in crisis have, in recent years, been running the eurozone’s monetary printing presses overtime.
The union survived as an underground operation, printing discussion documents and organizing rallies.
Apostles of monetary expansion believe that all you have to do is speed up the printing press.
Of course, it is understandable that Western banks that recklessly extended euro loans to these countries now want to give them euro printing presses.
Providing Bulgaria, Croatia, and Romania with national euro printing presses would keep private credit flowing and enable foreign-currency loans to be rolled over.
But, because euro membership precludes that option, financially sound Northern European countries would once again be called upon to help with European Central Bank loan guarantees and financial transfers, while tolerating the newly added eurozone members’ self-service with the printing press.
This revolution is spreading to the production of goods, where robots and 3D printing are displacing labor.
An extreme form of this may be coming in the form of 3D printing, a technology that makes it possible to produce an astonishingly wide and growing range of products by printing them one layer at a time.
Think again of the 3D printing model, a potential form of demand-driven mass-customization, and its combination with online mobile payments systems and social media.
We get countless e-mail admonitions: “Please consider the environment before printing.”
But when it comes to advanced technologies in emerging sectors like next-generation computing and energy systems, as well as developments in manufacturing like robotics and 3D printing, Japan’s considerable lead should not be underestimated.
Making matters worse, the US, the United Kingdom, and Japan began implementing quantitative-easing policies – that is, they began printing money – in an attempt to sustain GDP growth.
Equally important, but largely unknown, is the fact that the Banca d’Italia has resorted to the printing press to cover Italy’s gigantic balance of payments deficit.
The extra money printing and lending, as measured by the so-called Target deficit, effectively means drawing a credit from the ECB.
Italy was stable and did not seem to need the printing press to solve its financial problems.
But the countries that adopted the euro can no longer rely on the printing press.
When the bubble burst, the ECB tried to prevent the excessive prices from returning to their equilibrium levels by using its printing press and promising unlimited coverage to investors.
Budgetary problems, however, were not solved; borrowing replaced the promiscuous printing of rubles.
Moreover, they do not pose moral-hazard issues (unless one thinks of the long-term moral hazard that the “exorbitant privilege” of printing the world’s international currency creates for US fiscal policy).
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